Bug#456943: Weird colored output issues

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> At the moment, I can't think of anything except the less-elegant solution
> of inserting newlines into the text to make it wrap as expected.  (It's
> less elegant since redirecting the text to a file will have the newlines,
> and also because then grep would have to know the terminal width).

 I think grep checks whether its output file descriptor is a tty to
 enable escape sequences.  I'll reassign to grep and suggest this;
 thanks!

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Loïc Minier